Wednesday, March 30, 2011

PHOTO OF THE DAY... Below is a (false) color image of Mercury that was shot by the MESSENGER spacecraft yesterday. The pic is the first ever taken from a spacecraft that's in orbit around our solar system's innermost planet. For more MESSENGER photos, go its official mission website.

A false-color image of Mercury that was taken from orbit by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, on March 29, 2011.
NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Carnegie Institution of Washington

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